anthologist
/ænˈθɒl.ə.dʒɪst/noun
anthologist is a noun meaning “a person who anthologizes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-H-O-L-O-G-I-S-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anthologist is anthologists.
What does anthologist mean?
noun
- 1
a person who anthologizes
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anthologist?
- UK /ænˈθɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
Anthologist has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anthologist
- anthologists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anthologist?
Anthologist appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anthologist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who anthologises:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anthologiste |
| Portuguese | antologista |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anthologist come from?
From anthology + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).